Seminars and colloquia in the following majors are offered in a block format that allows students to meet Thursday through Saturday three or four times during the semester.

Biblical Exposition

Christian Education

Christian Leadership

Counselor Education and Supervision (3 times/semester)

Evangelism

Great Commission Studies

Missions

Courses in the following majors meet weekly or biweekly.

Biblical Interpretation

Christian Apologetics

Church History

New Testament

Old Testament

Theology

In June 2016 the ATS Board of Commissioners approved a three-year experiment allowing an exception to the Commission's PhD residency requirement that "courses, seminars, and colloquia for research doctoral degrees shall normally be completed on the main campus" (Degree Program Standard J, section J.3.1.1). This experiment is limited to offering those courses (roughly two-thirds of the PhD program's total credits) through synchronous interactive video, not through asynchronous means.

Approval of this exception means that students who are unable to take advantage of the campus scholarly environment can participate fully in seminars and colloquia through live Internet connections. Courses in all majors have the option of being taken via synchronous interactive video. Some workshop courses still will require travel to the main campus in January or summer breaks.